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Table 17.— Summary of characters distinguishing the four species of Sardn. 



Sarda australis (Macleay) 



Pelamys australis Macleay 1880:557 (original 

 description; Port Jackson, Sydney, Australia). 

 Ogilby 1887:29 (listed, New South Wales; 

 should be compared with P. chilensis). McCoy 

 1888:208 (compared with P. schlegeli). Stan- 

 bury 1969:206 (holotype in Macleay Museum, 

 University of Sydney). 



Pelamys schlegeli McCoy 1888:207-208 (original 

 description from one specimen from Prince 

 Phillip Bay, Victoria), col. pi. 155. 



Pelamys chilensis (not of Cuvier, 1831). Ogilby 

 1893:97-98 (synonymy, description; New South 

 Wales), pi. 26. 



Sarda chilensis (not of Cuvier 1831). Waite 1904:42 

 (listed, New South Wales). Stead 1906:163-164 

 (New South Wales and Victoria), fig. 59. Stead 

 1908:94-95 (New South Wales), pi. 54. 



Sarda chiliensis (hot of Cuvier 1831). McCuUoch 

 1922:105 (New South Wales), pi. 33, fig. 291a. 



Sarda orientalis (not of Temminck and Schlegel 

 1844). Lord 1927:15 (listed, Tasmania). 



Sarda australis. Walford 1936:9 (in key as valid 

 species of Sarda). Serventy 1941a:42-43 



(description; Eastern Australia), pi. 4, middle 

 fig. Serventy 1941b:7 (summer visitor to Vic- 

 toria). Laevastu and Rosa 1963:1844 (fig. 7, 

 map of distribution and fishing areas, in part). 

 Whitley 1964a:236 (common from the 

 Capricorn Islands, Great Barrier Reef to Syd- 

 ney), fig. 2 (distribution map). Whitley 

 1964b:48 (listed). 



Sarda chiliensis australis. Roughley 1951:121-122 

 (description; Australia), plate 49b. Munro 

 1958a:113 (description; Queensland, New 

 South Wales, and Victoria), fig. 754. Grant 

 1972:114 (description; Queensland), fig. (after 

 McCoy). 



Sarda chilerisis australis. Silas 1964:296 (in key, 

 map, S. chilensis divided into an eastern 

 Pacific S. c. chilensis and an Australian S. c. 

 australis). 



Comparative Diagnosis.-Sarrfa australis shows 

 11-15 similarities each, among characters con- 

 sidered (Table 17), with S. sarda, S. chiliensis, and 

 S. orientalis. It differs from all of them in having 

 slightly fewer pectoral rays (25-27, modally 26 vs. 

 22-26, modally 24-25) and in having a 90° angle in 



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